The "public sphere" is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt's groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture.

With new, up-to-date introduction from Alexander Kluge.

A classic critique of Habermas' renowned notion of the public sphere

About the Author
Oskar Negt is an award-winning filmmaker, a TV producer, theorist and editor, and owner of the Development Company for Television Production and Cairos Film Company. A student of Theodor Adorno and assistant to Jurgen Habermas, he is now Professor of Sociology at the University of Hannover.

Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late-20th century as well as film-maker, director, screenwriter and an important social critic. A contemporary of Theodor Adorno, he has won almost every German literary award, including the triennial Adorno prize in 2009.

Reviews
Kluge is a direct link to many of the giants of 20th-century German art and ideas ... a polymath who moves between literature, philosophy and the moving image with equal facility, and has made decisive contributions to each of those fields. -- Sukhdev Sandhu * Financial Times *
Two authors who, individually and collaboratively, have done much to shape post-war left-wing theory in Germany. Though less well-known in the English-speaking world, to a German readership they are familiar and key figures of critical theory. * Marx and Philosphy *



Book Information
ISBN 9781784782412
Author Alexander Kluge
Format Paperback
Page Count 350
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 398g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 26mm